i bought an external hard drive 100gb seagate and i want to fresh install windows xp pro on it. but when i try to install it.. it gives me some error relating to SCSI driver and the format and install dosent take place at all.. is there a way i can make windows xp install on my hard drive so that when i hook it up through my USB my computer recognizes it and i start working from that point... Please help
2006-08-07 07:21:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Why dont you just buy a new hard drive for it? But it is a SCSI drive then you need to download the driver for it, put it on a floppy, press F6 as soon as the Windows install screen starts up and then load the driver following the instructions after Win XP loads all the rest of the files. Then BIOS will recognize the drive.
2006-08-07 07:28:02 · answer #1 · answered by Rox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a C610 only has USB 1.1 ports, not USB 2.0 ports, you can not boot Windows from it. The BIOS of the laptop will not recognize that the external hard drive is present until it gets into Windows. Plus since it is only USB 1.1, the hard drive is going to crawl. The same amount of files I can copy in 2 minutes on a USB 2.0 will take about 12-15 minutes on c610's USB 1.1.
Return the external drive and purchase a replacement laptop hard drive instead. It is a standard size with a mini-IDE connector, so you should be able to find one reasonable priced at a "real" computer store (might be 25% more than a desktop would be).
2006-08-07 07:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-04 01:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by seelye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you ever look at a hard drive?There's hardly anything to it.How can anything ever go wrong with a hard drive?Take the computer back to the store that you purchased it from and talk to the manager.Call first.
2006-08-07 07:45:55 · answer #4 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
need to enter your laptop bios and see if support boot from usb device, if don't try some bios update from your laptop page or need to change your internal hdd
2006-08-07 07:28:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋